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So I'm still reading Leviticus (yes I know...I've been there for a while). Anywho as I was reading today I couldn't help but appreciate the fact that we have to New Testament because of what the Old Testament teaches. As I've said before Leviticus is all about laws and things to do to keep the children of Israel clean, not exactly the best book to start a non-believer or new Christian on.

However it has taught me the appreciation for the new covenant, that in Christ we are truly free. It was because of the Israelites keeping themselves in the purity of God's law (as "best" they could) so that the Christ could come out of them and be a part of a pure people. Now...Gentiles..don't get in a tizzy God loved and still does love us as greatly as anyone else...hence the Savior, but he needed him to come from a certain prominent line.

Anyways, I was rabbit trailing...so in chapter 17 of Leviticus it talks about the sanctity of blood. How the life is in the blood and no one should eat/drink it. Part of verse 11 ties into what we know now as new covenant Christians. It reads ". . . for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul." God commands that they use beasts and other things, but beasts have blood, so they were to use the beasts and their blood for sacrifice.

We allude to Jesus as being the lamb of God. He was the sacrifice once and for all. Life is in the blood, life is in the blood of Jesus. Leviticus...good stuff.

All to God